Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Leonhardt is the co-founder, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Bioheart. He has served as our Chairman of the Board since our incorporation in August 1999. He resumed his position as Chief Executive Officer in July 2008 after having also served in such capacity from August 1999 until March 2007. In March 2007, Mr. Leonhardt was appointed as our Chief Technology Officer. In 1986, Mr. Leonhardt founded World Medical Manufacturing Corporation, or World Medical, and served as its Chief Executive Officer from 1986 until December 1998 when World Medical was acquired by Arterial Vascular Engineering, Inc., or AVE. AVE was acquired by Medtronic, Inc. in January 1999. Mr. Leonhardt was the co-inventor of World Medical's primary product, the TALENT (Taheri-Leonhardt) stent graft system. From December 1998 until June 1999, Mr. Leonhardt served as President of World Medical Manufacturing Corporation, a subsidiary of Medtronic. Scientific articles written by Mr. Leonhardt have been published in a number of publications including Techniques in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and the Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery. Mr. Leonhardt received a diploma in International Trade from the Anoka-Hennepin Technical College, attended the University of Minnesota and Anoka-Ramsey Community College and holds an honorary Doctorate Degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Northern California.
Mr. Carson has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 2001. Since May 2001, Mr. Carson has served as the Vice President of Sales of FinishMaster, Inc., a privately held company specializing in the distribution of paints and products to the automotive and industrial refinishing industries. From 1987 until May 2001, Mr. Carson was President of Badger Paint Plus, Inc., a privately held distributor of paints and products, until Badger Paint Plus' merger with FinnishMaster, Inc. Mr. Carson is co-owner of the Southern Minnesota Express Hockey Club, a member of the North American Hockey League. Mr. Carson is also the founder and President of the Athletic Performance Academy in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, a privately held athletic training facility that has specialized in sports specific training for elite athletes since August 2004.
Ms. Farley has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 2007. Ms. Farley was appointed to our Board as a representative of Ascent Medical Technology Funds. Since January 1998, Ms. Farley has served as a managing director of the general partner and co-founder of the Ascent Medical Technology Funds. She is also the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ascent Capital Management, Inc. From 1984 until 1997, Ms. Farley was Chief Executive Officer of a set of firms that she developed as the locus for investment in the United States for non-US investors, engaging in venture capital investments, identifying and conducting acquisition transactions in the United States and South Asia as well as directing the management of private and corporate assets. From 1978 to 1984, she was with Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, in the International Group of the Corporate Finance Division. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Ms. Farley served as consultant to U.S. corporations, including Avon, Ingersoll-Rand, Citibank, and Morgan Stanley. Her career in business began in the mid-1970s in Citibank's Athens-based Middle East and North Africa Regional Office. She received an M.A. from Columbia University in 1972 and an A.B. from Barnard College in 1970.
David J. Gury has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2005. Since June 2004, Mr. Gury has served as the principal of Gury Consulting, LLC in Boca Raton, Florida. In May 1984, Mr. Gury joined Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company that primarily develops products for hepatitis and transplant, gram-positive bacterial infections and nicotine addiction, as President and Chief Operating Officer. He was elected Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President in April 1992 and served in such positions until his retirement in May 2004. Prior to joining Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, Mr. Gury was employed in various administrative and executive positions with Alpha Therapeutics Corporation, a spin off of Abbott Laboratories. From December 2003 until April 2008, Mr. Gury was a member of the board of directors of Oragenics, Inc., a publicly traded emerging biotechnology company, most recently serving as Chairman, to which he was elected in December 2004. In April 2005, Mr. Gury was appointed by Florida's Governor Jeb Bush to serve as a Director on the Scripps Florida Funding Corporation Board and currently serves as Vice Chairman. Mr. Gury received an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1962 specializing in accounting and finance and an A.B. in economics from Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in 1960. Mr. Gury is Chairman of the Florida Research Consortium and past Chairman and a member of BioFlorida, Florida's independent statewide bioscience organization.
Dr. Murphy has served as a member of our Board of Directors since June 2003. Dr. Murphy founded Small Parts, Inc., a supplier of high quality mechanical components for design engineers, in 1964 and served as its Chairman until his retirement in April 2005. Small Parts, Inc. was acquired by Amazon.com, Inc. in March 2005. From October 1999 until October 2004, Dr. Murphy served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hyperion, Inc., a medical diagnosis company which had an involuntary bankruptcy filed against it in December 2003. Dr. Murphy is the founder of Cordis Corporation (now Cordis Johnson & Johnson) which he led as President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at various times during his 28 years at Cordis until his retirement in October 1985. Cordis Johnson & Johnson is a leading firm in cardiovascular instrumentation. Dr. Murphy received an M.D. in 1947 from the University of Illinois and a B.S in pre-medicine from Harvard College in 1946. He also studied physiologic instrumentation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT. After a two year rotating internship at St. Francis Hospital in Honolulu, he become a Research Fellow in Medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston where he was the dialysis engineer on the first clinical dialysis team in the United States. He continued as an Instructor in Medicine and then a research Associate in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Murphy is the author of numerous papers and owns 17 patents. He is the recipient of a number of honors, including the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award, the MIT Corporate Leadership Award, the Distinguished Service Award from North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology, and the Jay Malina Award from the Beacon Council of Miami, Florida.
Richard T. Spencer, III has served as a member of our Board of Directors since December 2001. From April 1982 until July 1987, Mr. Spencer was President of the Marketing Division of Cordis Corporation (now Cordis Johnson & Johnson) and a member of its executive committee and a Vice President of Cordis Dow Corporation, a joint venture of the Dow Chemical Company and Cordis to manufacture hollow fiber dialysers and machinery for dialysis. Mr. Spencer was Chief Operating Officer and held other executive positions with World Medical from 1993 to January 1999. Mr. Spencer received a B.A. in Economics in 1959 from the University of Michigan. He has studied business theory, case studies and financial management while attending executive programs at the Stanford University School of Business, the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and the Clemson University School of Business. Between his University of Michigan studies and embarking on a career in healthcare, Mr. Spencer served in Europe with the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps as a military intelligence analyst with top secret security clearance. Mr. Spencer is also the founder and a member of the board of directors of Viacor, Inc., a private company that is developing techniques for the percutaneous repair of heart mitral valves.
Mr. Timmins was appointed to serve as a member of our Board of Directors in October 2008. From 1992 through September 2008, Mr. Timmins served in a variety of roles at AVI BioPharma, Inc., a publicly traded company which develops therapeutic products for the treatment of life-threatening diseases, including as President from May 2000 to September 2008, as Chief Operating Officer from October 1996 to September 2008 and as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1992 to May 2000. Mr. Timmins also served as a member of AVI BioPharma's Board of Directors from 1997 through October 2007. Mr. Timmins received a B.B.A. in Accounting and Management from the University of Portland and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).
Mr. Tomas has served as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2003. Mr. Tomas was appointed to our Board as a representative of The Astri Group. Since January 2001, Mr. Tomas has served as President of The Astri Group, an early-stage private equity investment company providing capital, business development and strategic marketing support to emerging private companies. Prior to this, Mr. Tomas was President of Apex Capital from June 2000 until January 2001, when the private equity investment company was acquired by The Astri Group. From 1984 until June 2000, Mr. Tomas was Chief Marketing Officer at Avantel-MCI, MCI Worldcom's joint venture with Grupo Financiero Banamex. Mr. Tomas is also a member of the board of directors of several private companies. Mr. Tomas received an M.B.A. from the University of Miami in 2000 and a B.A. in Industrial Organizational Psychology from Florida International University in 1990.
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